Mount & Blade: Warband: Multiplayer – Multiplayier!

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Emerging from a cloud of dust of E3 is the sound of horse-feet. Hooves. That’s the word, hooves. Sorry – it’s early. As you’ll hopefully be aware, RPS-fave Mount & Blade is getting an expansion. In terms of features they revealed at E3, we’re talking about fancier graphics with redone models and – er – graphic effects I can’t be bothered listing and now 64 player multiplayer (with game modes including team death match and the iggy-pop-inspired Search & Destroy. Worth noting it’s more than just a MP expansion too – the SP will have the ability to become a faction ruler and force people to become your vassals, in a manner akin to how Jim rules RPS. Also, Soldier Morale, adding proper cowards. Run! Run from my horse feet. Er… gameplay trailer beneath the cut.

Picked this up on Steam for a pittance (£6 ish) a few month back. Love it, especially with the plethora of good mods out there, some of which have already created some nice improved visuals.
Multiplayer battles should be fantastic. Cant wait
I hope they add some Holy Grail Pythonesque taunts for Mp.
MorningStar>Holy Handgrenade of Antioch

Picked it up cheaply, haven’t played it yet… given the glacial pace of progress making maps for L4D it looks like it will already be fully modded and expanded by the time I get round to actually playing. Still keen to do so, just need to be made redundant or something to have the time!

One of my favouritest games and one I keep coming back to. Very easy to get a hero complex when your entire army has been slaughtered and you manage to take out the remaining 20 enemy soldiers on your own with just a smidgen of health left.

I really wish I had bought M&B when it was on sale on Steam for 5$. I had played the demo long before that and I hadn’t really gotten into it, so I figured that there was no point in buying it. But too many of the right kind of people say it’s a great game, especially after mods and I should have given it another chance at least. At worst, it would have been just another 5$ game added to my steam list. I really feel stupid whenever I see news about this game :(

My character has just had his warband wiped out for about the third time (Swabian lord who’s villages I had being looting caught up with me) so it back to recuiting villagers and duffing up looters for a while….god this game is addictive.

Wonder if there is going to be any way to run persistent worlds of some sort with folks going around and doing a range of stuff, or if its mainly going to be a player-killing scrum of the typical fps-mp variety.

Whatever the case, I’m not a player, but I’ve a fair amount of respect for the title.

So… what are some good mods for M&B? I’m throughly enjoying myself at level 3, but am curious about any mods out there.

This game is so much fun! When I played the demo, I started off somewhere in the middle of Calradia and could only find looters to kill who all had crappy gear. But when I started a new character in the full game, it put me by the sea, and also next to 9 Sea Raiders, whom I easily dispatched while treading them under my horsey-feets. These “Sea Raiders” had much better gear than the usual poor “looters” and I got a load of armor, swords, shields, bows, and awesome loots that I was able to sell and make myself 3k right from the start! I don’t think I got anywhere CLOSE to 3k in the demo, since everyone I killed had such poor weapons.

Anyway, I’m hooked, and the game gets even better once you buy a weapon with Blunt damage like an Iron Staff. Then you can ride your horse and “couch” the staff, knocking enemies unconscious instead of killing them, and then selling them to the galley slavers, MWHAHAHA. I’m getting rich quickly, and I haven’t even taken any proper missions yet!

Did they mention whether or not they’re going to fix the horribly broken game before adding another pile of poorly-implemented gubbins? I mean, I love Mount and Blade, but I’m not paying for more of it before the existing parts work properly. Also, the prospect of playing online with the denizens of its forum is … unappealing.

What I want is a Rome or Medaeval Total war type game where I can play it like Mount and Blade. I could even play as a legion even down to the last few men. I’d control one archer for example and the others in my unit would aim likewise on the battle field. Some other player can run the battle and I’d like to enjoy the soldiers eye view. It wouldn’t be laggy cause you get about twenty units in RTW so with the two commanders it would basically be a 42 player mp game but with each player controling a single soldier with a unit mimicing his general focus of aggression. The commander would send you the instructions and it would be up to you to carry them out or not. if you die you just go into the next senior figure in your unit.
When ever i play RTW i wish there was such an option with graphics and flow like Mount and Blade, only with thousands of soldiers (although only about forty actual players.)
Medieval 2 didn’t do it for me as every Euro nations knights looked too much alike. If the next Creative Assembly had such a vew as mount and blade i’d upgrade my computer for it.

That looks like it could be fun. I do hope they’ll change the horrible shades of green and red they use for the different teams in tournament matches though! Like 10% of Caucasian males (which, let’s face it, is probably their target demographic), I’m colour-blind, and I really have to strain to tell those two apart.

It does look like they’re gone though. All I could see in that trailer were people with bare armour and people with white tabards over their armour, so it looks like they’ve gone with a “skins vs. shirts” rather than a “red vs. blue” thing for the teams :)

Can’t wait for it! Loved the original and was glad to have bought it way back in early beta when it was a pittance.

Even if its just multiplayer skirmish that would still be great fun. I did love the visceral feel of the melee combat, get a big 2 handed axe and just chop away. Especially great in a massive castle siege.

Seems a bit of an awkward demo when they only appear to have 4 people to play it. Excited either way though, I’m in love with the combat from the game. Scoring an archery headshot at the length of the battlefield while on horseback makes you feel like the greatest badass ever.

I seem to remember them mentioning that they planned to fix sieges in the expansion, but be careful what you say – I got an earful last time I suggested that fixing poorly working mechanics in an expansion and not a patch might be in poor taste.

M&B was good fun for a bit, but got hollow and repetitive. MP should be just the ticket. That said, I hope they include a menu overhaul is in order, because I could never figure out how to arm my soldiers.